How to Track Search Trends with OpenClaw and Google Trends

OpenClaw sits in your Telegram, Discord, or Signal chat all day. With AgentPatch’s Google Trends tool connected, it can answer questions about search interest over time without you opening a browser or pulling a CSV. Ask your bot how a term is trending and it retrieves real data.

Why This Matters

Google Trends data is useful for a range of decisions — understanding whether interest in a topic is growing or fading, comparing terms before you invest in content or ads, or getting a quick read on what’s currently spiking. It’s the kind of research that’s easy to skip because it feels like too much friction for a quick question.

With OpenClaw handling the query, the friction disappears. You ask, it fetches the trend data, and replies in your chat.

Setup

Add AgentPatch to ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json:

{
  "mcp": {
    "servers": {
      "agentpatch": {
        "transport": "streamable-http",
        "url": "https://agentpatch.ai/mcp",
        "headers": {
          "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Replace YOUR_API_KEY with your actual key from the AgentPatch dashboard. Restart OpenClaw and it discovers all AgentPatch tools automatically.

Example

You’re thinking about writing some content and want to know whether a topic is worth targeting. You message your OpenClaw bot on Telegram:

“How has search interest in ‘AI agents’ trended over the past 12 months? Is it growing?”

OpenClaw calls the Google Trends tool through AgentPatch and replies with the trend data — search interest over time, whether it’s rising or declining, and any notable spikes. You get a real answer in seconds.

You follow up:

“Compare that to ‘ChatGPT plugins’ — which has more momentum right now?”

OpenClaw runs the comparison and tells you which term has stronger current interest. That’s useful input for deciding where to focus your content effort. No spreadsheet, no browser session.

Wrapping Up

AgentPatch gives OpenClaw access to Google Trends and the full marketplace — news, web search, email, image generation, and more. One connection covers all of it. Get started at agentpatch.ai.

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